NEW RELEASE
Summer at the Lake - Erica James (2013)
Oxford tour guide Floriana receives a wedding invitation from her former best friend Seb. She is so distracted thinking about him getting back in touch after two years apart, that she walks out in front of a car. Luckily, two people rush to her aid - elderly lady Esme and newly single property developer Adam. The trio form an unlikely friendship, which leads to them all heading to Lake Como for the wedding. Perhaps it will be Esme's chance to find out what happened to a charming Italian man she met many summers ago. This is a lovely story from a superb storyteller, with the main characters bursting with kindness. The flashbacks to Esme's time in Lake Como were particularly enjoyable.
Summer at the Lake, by Erica James, is a story about lost love, fate and second chances. The summary says: "Floriana loves her job as an Oxford tour guide and thrives on the variety each day brings - one day it could be leading an Inspector Morse and Lewis tour, another day it could be a Pre-Raphaelite tour. Her biggest failing is that she's a habitual procrastinator and this leads her to put off telling the one true love of her life how she felt about him until it was too late. Now, out of the blue, after two years of not speaking, she receives a card from Seb announcing his forthcoming marriage. It's a card that sets off a chain of events that ensures life is about to change for Floriana. For if she hadn't been so distracted by Seb's news, she would have seen the car coming. . . And if she'd seen the car, there would have been no need for Adam Strong, a local property developer, and elderly spinster Esme Silcox to rush to her aid. And if she hadn't met Adam and Esme she would never have had the courage to agree to attend Seb's wedding in beautiful Lake Como. But if she goes, can she be trusted not to leap from her seat and cry, 'It should have been me!'?" Summer at the Lake is out in December 2013.